Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Howard L. McBain, of Columbia University, and Mr. H. J. Haskell, Editor of "The Star," Kansas City, Mo., acting as judges for the 1914 competition awarded the prize to Miss Sybel Edelweiss Loughead, of Radcliffe, and honorable mention was made of the essay submitted by Thomas D. Dyer, of Leland Stanford, Jr., University...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart contributes an analysis of the race influences in the European War; there are two amusing pieces of fiction blessed by the absence of affectation; one short essay entitled "Fussing" treats lightly of a present day, collegiate--and perpetual and world wide--harmless hypocrisy...
Chester Dewitt Pugsley '09 of New York City has offered a prize of $100, to be presented the author of the best essay on "International Arbitration." To compete one must be a male undergraduate of a college or University in the United States or Canada. The judges who will pass judgment on the essays are Charles F. Thwing, LL.D., President of the Western Reserve University; Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. N.; and James L. Tryon, Ph.D., Director of the New England Department of the American Peace Society. The award will be made at the Lake Mohonk Peace Conference...
...Each essay should show an understanding of the nature and history of international arbitration, apart from and in connection with the Hague Conferences and the Hague Court. It may also refer to or emphasize such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices, Mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes," adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences. The "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" another text book recommended for reference. Each contestant is required to append...
...Each essay should bear a nom de plume or arbitrary sign which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class, and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, Secretary Lake Mohonk Conference, (address, until December 1, 1914, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; December 1, 1914, to April 1, 1915, 3531 Fourteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C.), not later than March 15, 1915. Essay should be mailed flat (not rolled)." For additional information address the Secretary of the Conference...